Francesco Furini

Barilla Collection, Italy;

By whom sold, Geneva, Genève Enchères, 29 April 2026, lot 63 (as after Francesco Furini);

Where acquired by the present owner.

This dramatically lit composition exists in a number of autograph replicas, including: a canvas in the collection of Mina Gregori, Florence;¹ a work in the Luzzetti Collection, Florence;² and a picture sold at Sotheby's, New York, in January 2019 for $32,500.³ Another variant of this composition, tentatively ascribed to Furini's contemporary Cecco Bravo, is in the Horne Museum, Florence.⁴

We are grateful to Sandro Bellesi for endorsing the attribution to Francesco Furini on the basis of digital images.

¹ G. Cantelli, Francesco Furini e I Furiniani, Florence 2010, p. 118, no. 39, reproduced pl. 39.

² Cantelli 2010, pp. 118–19, no. 40, reproduced in colour pl. XXVIII.

³ Anonymous sale ('Property from a Private West Coast Collection'), New York, Sotheby's, 30 January 2019, lot 158; https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2019/master-paintings-sculpture-day-sale/francesco-furini-artemisia

⁴ Cantelli 2010, p. 119, no. 41, reproduced pl. 41; https://photocollections.courtauld.ac.uk/sec-menu/search/detail/95567ecf-2a6c-a08c-634c-647069bcb4e8/media/3adbd94f-d4ed-53f2-7e96-ef0924c76ba6